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Gavin Barwell sets the bar low

Oh dear. It used to be that the Conservatives had their eyes on a 100-seat majority, now it seems that they’ll celebrate a draw.

Theresa May’s chief of staff Gavin Barwell appears to be spending his Friday attempting to rally the troops today by retweeting a host of ‘favourable’ polls and results from around the country. If council by-elections weren’t enough to convince the rank and file things were going well, then surely a surge in the polls nationally would do the trick. Or maybe not. It seems Barwell thinks Labour dropping one point to tie with the Tories is a reason to be cheerful:

Mr S suspects this development might not be quite enough to calm Tory members still seething over the Chequers proposal…

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